Currycomb



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W. T. KELLEY.

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Papt ented Jan.- 15

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

WILLIAM THOMAS KELLEY, OF OHIGAGO, ILLINOIS.

CURRYCOMB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,564,dated January15,1895.

Applicationfilell December 1,1893. Serial 110492.547. (Nomodeli) T0 onwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM THOMAS KEL- LEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inOurrycombs, of which. the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, which.

, is to provide a curry-comb having a number of separate combingsections, each and every one of which is so supported that it is movableindependently of every other combing section, and of every other portionof the comb excepting only the spring support by which it is carried.

A further object of the-invention is to provide a curry-comb of thischaracter in which the movement of all of the blades is resisted byanequal force.

A further object of the invention is to provide a curry-comb of suchconstruction that it may be used for combing the manes and tails ofhorses.

To these ends the invention consists in the features of novelty that areparticularly pointed out in the claims hereinafter.

In the drawings A represents the handle, and B a metallic plateprovided. with a threaded stem 0 which is screwed into the handle. Theplate B forms in effect a base or foundation of adequate strength towhich one end of each of a number of spring supports D is secured bysome suitable means, as, for example, by screws (1. These springsupports are of (substantially) C-shape, and are constructed upon curvesof dilferent radii, so that when they are placed one within another, andeach of them has one of its ends secured to the handle, they all divergefrom their points of attachment to their extremities and terminateinsubstantially the same plane. To the extremity of each of these springsupports is secured one of the combing sections (which, as shown in thedrawings, consists of a toothed blade E) all of which are so locatedthat their toothed sides lie in substantially the same plane.

It will be understood that in a curry-comb thus constructed each of theseveral-spring supports proceeds from the handle to the combing sectionwhich it supports without coming in contact with any other of thesupports or with any other of the combing sections, sothat each combingsection is movable independently of every other combing section, andindependently of all of the spring supports excepting onlythe one bywhich it is carried, so that the force by which it is held to its workdepends solely upon the resisting force of its spring support, and, inorder that the necessary inequalities in the lengths of the supportsshall not result in corresponding inequalities in the resistance whichthey offer to the movement of the combing sections, as aforesaid, theseveral spring supports should be of successively increasing thickness,or tempered to different degrees.

Spring supports of C-shape, arranged as described, permit the combingsections to move or yield not only in the direction of their own severalplanes, but also in the direction of the common plane in which they alllie,

and so far as I am aware, I am the first to provide a comb which hasthis action.

By using combing sections consisting of plates or blades of uniformlength, and by attaching each of them at an intermediate point to itssupport so that they project a considerable distance from their pointsof attachment, each of them forms in effect a long tooth of a comb thatmay be used to advantage in combing manes and tails. In order that theseblades may have-the requisite strength, and at the same time be ofminimum weight and thickness, each is provided with a longitudinal ribor corrugation.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a curry comb, the combination of a handle, a spring supportsecured thereto and extending therefrom, a combing section secured tosaid support, a second spring support separate from and independent ofthe first, secured to the handle and extending therefrom, past thecombing section aforesaid but without contact therewith, and a secondcombing section secured to the second support, the

rate from and independent of the combing section first aforesaid,substantially as set forth.

2. In a curry-comb, the combination of a handle, a spring support ofC-shape secured thereto at one end and extending therefrom, a combingsection secured to said support, a second spring support of C-shapeseparate from and independent of the first, secured to the handle andextending therefrom, past the combing section aforesaid but withoutcontact therewith, and a second combing section secured to the secondsupport, the second combing section being entirely separate from andindependent of the combing section first aforesaid, substantially as setforth.

3. In a curry-comb, the combination with a handle, of a plurality ofspring supports of C- shape and of successively increasing radii locatedone within the other and all secured at one end to thehandle so thatthey diverge from their point of attachment to their extremities andterminate in a common plane,

and aplurality of combing sections all located in a common plane andeach secured to one of the spring supports, substantially as set forth.

4. A curry-comb having, in combination, a number of blades of uniformlength each having teeth on but one of its sides, and spring supportsapart from other supports and other comb-sections to which each of saidblades is attached at an intermediate point and from which each bladeprojects, the projecting portions of the several blades being entirelyfree and disconnected from each other so that an unobstructed opening isleft between the projecting portion of each blade and the next wherebythe projecting portions of the blades form so many teeth of a combadapted for combing man es and tails, substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM THOMAS KELLEY. Witnesses:

CHAS. H. GARY, W. S. SMITH.

